Comment 2 for bug 561479
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| Michael Shallcrass (mshallcrass) wrote Re: Windows executable on a DVD don't want to execute with Wine due to lack of executable bit | #2 |
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I'm also experiencing this bug with multiple installation disks in Lucid beta 2. This includes disks I have successfully installed from while running older versions of Ubuntu.
Trying to run any executable file from a CD or DVD results in an error such as:
"The file '/media/Orange Box/Setup.exe' is not marked as executable. If this was downloaded or copied form an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run. For more details, read about the executable bit."
If the .exe is copied to the computer the error persists until the box is ticked in the permission preferences allowing for execution as a program. Then the file runs through wine as expected.
The issue seems really to be that by default files are not given permission to run as applications, and since files on an optical disk are read-only it is impossible to grant them permission to run. I guess in theory it would be the same for an internal file system that was mounted read-only, but trying to run programs off CD is probably a common enough action that this bug is worth further investigation.
I don't expect the majority of end users want to have to learn how to mount their installation disks manually in order to change mount settings, it should just be possible to run programs off a CD, as it has been possible to in the past.